YouTube long-form
Click-stopping YouTube thumbnails at scale
Generate MrBeast-style thumbnails with bold faces, big numbers, and high-contrast colour pairs. GPT Image 2 keeps the text legible at watch-page size and shrink-test size on mobile.
AI thumbnail maker for YouTube, Shorts, and Reels
Three ways to make a thumbnail, all on one platform. Pick a preset style, upload a reference thumbnail and Fliki matches the layout, or drop in your own photo so your face or product lands on the cover. Free to try, paid plans unlock 10+ more image models.
Free forever plan · No sign-up to try · Paid unlocks 10+ image models
100M+
VIDEOS CREATED12M+
USERS WORLDWIDE80+
LANGUAGES SUPPORTEDThumbnails generated with Fliki
A live look at the thumbnail style library powering the picker above. Pick any of these as your starting point, type your topic, and Fliki generates the cover.
Three ways to make a thumbnail
Preset templates, your reference, or your own photo. One platform.
Fliki gives you three on-ramps to a click-stopping cover. Browse 50+ preset styles, upload a thumbnail you want Fliki to match as a dynamic template, or drop in your own face or product photo. The free plan unlocks the preset workflow. Sign in to use reference uploads, photo overlays, and the full 11-model image roster.
Preset templates: pick a style, type your topic
Free to try, no sign-up. Browse the Style picker, choose one of 50+ thumbnail templates that match your channel vibe, write your topic, and Fliki generates the cover in 5 to 10 seconds. The fastest path from idea to thumbnail.
Reference upload: bring a thumbnail, get a dynamic template
Have a thumbnail style you love? Sign up and drop the reference image. Fliki captures the layout, font weight, colour scheme, and composition into a dynamic template you can re-use across every video on your channel.
Photo upload: your face or product on the cover
Upload a portrait, product shot, mascot, or brand asset and Fliki composes it directly into the generated thumbnail. Your real face on every video, on-brand and consistent across the channel grid. Sign up to unlock.
Free to try. Paid unlocks 10+ image models.
Free plan generates thumbnails on Z Image Turbo (fast, lightweight, no sign-up). Paid plans unlock GPT Image 2, Flux 2, Flux Pro, Seedream 4.5, Nano Banana 2, Qwen Image, Qwen-Image-Edit-Plus, and more so you can match every model to the right thumbnail style. Browse the full AI image generator roster.
Text-in-image done right
Paid models like GPT Image 2 lead the field for legible text rendered inside the image. Bold "I TRIED THIS" headlines, dollar amounts, percentages, dates. No more scribbled-glyph thumbnails or hand-pasting type in a second tool.
Pass the mobile shrink test
Over 70% of YouTube views happen on mobile. Fliki defaults to high-contrast colours, bold weights, and short headlines so the thumbnail still reads at the size of a postage stamp on a phone home screen.
Every platform, every aspect ratio
1280 x 720 (16:9) for YouTube. 1080 x 1920 (9:16) for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok. 1080 x 1080 (1:1) for Instagram grid. Pick the ratio from the composer pill and Fliki renders on-spec for the platform you publish to.
Generate the video AND the thumbnail
No other tool ships the video and the thumbnail in one project. Pair the thumbnail maker with our AI video generator or text-to-video composer so the cover image and the video sit in the same timeline, on-brand together.
Edit any pixel after generation
Swap the headline, change the background, recolour the type, replace the face. Hand off the generated image to our AI image editor for inpaint, outpaint, and surgical region edits. Pixel-level control without leaving Fliki.
How it works
How to make a YouTube thumbnail with AI in 4 steps
From an idea to a 1280 x 720 thumbnail in under a minute. Sign up only when you are ready to download a watermark-free render.
Step 1
Describe the thumbnail
Type a prompt. Subject, expression, text headline, colour mood. Or pick a starter prompt from the YouTube, Shorts, or product-review templates and edit the brief.
Step 2
Pick a model and aspect ratio
GPT Image 2 by default (best for text in image). Switch to Flux 2, Seedream 4.5, or Nano Banana 2 for stylised hero shots without text. Pick 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts, 1:1 for grid.
Step 3
Generate and iterate
Most thumbnails render in 15 to 30 seconds. Audition variants, edit the prompt, regenerate, or hand the image to the AI image editor for surgical pixel-level edits.
Step 4
Download or pair with the video
Export PNG, JPG, or WebP at platform spec. Or drop the thumbnail straight onto the same timeline as your Fliki video so the cover and the content ship together, on-brand.
Use cases for AI Thumbnail Maker
One maker. Every channel that needs a click.
Long-form YouTube, Shorts, podcast covers, course thumbnails, gaming covers, product reviews. The thumbnail that earns the click for every kind of video.
Shorts & Reels
9:16 covers for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok
Vertical covers in 1080 x 1920 with safe-zone text composition so the headline survives the platform UI overlay. The right pick for high-volume creator channels shipping multiple shorts a week.
Podcast & audio
Podcast episode covers and clip thumbnails
Generate per-episode podcast art and Spotify video-podcast thumbnails. Drop a guest photo, brief the model on the topic, and ship a unique cover for every episode without commissioning a designer.
Courses & L&D
Course thumbnails and lesson covers
Brand-consistent lesson thumbnails for Teachable, Kajabi, Skool, or internal LMS. Same channel colours, same font weight, same logo placement across every cover so the course reads as one product.
AI MODEL GALLERY
Built on the best AI models - ready inside Fliki
Every leading video, voice, and image model - integrated, unified, and tuned for creators. Generate with the latest AI video, AI voice, and AI image models from OpenAI, Google, Kling, Bytedance, ElevenLabs, and more - all from one place.
Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1
Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0
Seedance
Seedance
Gemini 3.1
Gemini 3.1
Minimax
Minimax
Qwen
Qwen
Z-Img-Turbo
Z-Img-Turbo
Z-Img-Turbo
Seedream
Seedream
Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1
Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0
Kling 3.0
Seedance
Seedance
Gemini 3.1
Gemini 3.1
Minimax
Minimax
Qwen
Qwen
Z-Img-Turbo
Z-Img-Turbo
Z-Img-Turbo
Seedream
Seedream
AI Thumbnail Maker FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Fliki AI Thumbnail Maker
How AI thumbnails work, which model to pick, what sizes the maker supports, and how Fliki compares to Canva, Adobe Express, and Vidiq.
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